Loretta Sanchez

OC Deputies Union Gives to Boston Victims, Reward Funds and Lobbies Sanchez to Boost Homeland Security Dollars for Local Agencies

The Association of Orange County Deputy Sheriffs (AOCDS) has contributed to a fund for victims of the Boston terror attacks and to the reward for the capture of whoever planted the bombs. But the Santa Ana-based AOCDS wants to loosen up even more funding, calling on Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-Garden Gr ... More >>

Orange County DREAM Team Kicks Off a Week of Action Calling for Inclusive Legalization

While everyone in DC and their local apologists dithers about "comprehensive immigration reform," the Orange County Dream Team (OCDT), as usual, is taking action. Calling clearly for an 'inclusive legalization process,' the DREAMers are revving up for an ambitious week of action as the national deba ... More >>

Chris Cox Still Sits on 2004 Campaign Cash While Bob Dornan Remains In Debt For 1996 Presidential Run

It's been eight years since Newport Beach Republican Congressman Christopher Cox last campaigned for office and, though his seat was never in jeopardy in the Republican-rich coastal Orange County district, he collected millions of dollars in contributions.Cox, long an opponent of pro-consumer financ ... More >>

[UPDATED with More Details:] Bubba Watch 2012: Bill Clinton Reportedly Coming to Irvine Tuesday

See the update at the end of this post with more details on Bill Clinton's visit to Irvine.ORIGINAL POST, OCT. 19, 2:46 P.M.: Bill Clinton is reportedly coming back to Orange County.The 42nd president of these United States is said to be attending a post-(final, thank God)-debate rally somewhere on ... More >>

Congressman Darrell Issa Launches Probe Into the California High Speed Rail Authority

San Diego County Congressman Darrell Issa, the Republican chairman of a powerful congressional committee, yesterday told California High Speed Rail Authority officials to preserve records in anticipation of an investigation into potential corruption.Among Issa's concerns about the Authority include ... More >>

OC Young Democrats Reject Tom Daly's State Assembly Candidacy

​At one point in modern Orange County history Anaheim's Tom Daly was considered the biggest rising star in the local Democratic Party.That sentiment ended in 1996 with the stunning emergence of Loretta Sanchez, then an unknown character who toppled legendary, Republican Congressman Robert K. Dorna ... More >>

Loretta Sanchez Memoir is a Dud, Selling For a Penny

Perhaps Sanchez should have used a different book cover​A newspaper reported this week that the 2008 published memoir written by Orange County Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez and her sister has earned them "nothing."Ouch.According to the Washington, D.C.-based Roll Call, Linda Sanchez--Loretta's sis ... More >>

Van Tran Move Makes Sacramento Bee's "Worst" List

Van Tran ​There's no doubt that three months before the November election polling showed Orange County Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez might be in danger of losing to Little Saigon state Assemblyman Van Tran.To thwart Tran's potential rise, Sanchez--already known as a tireless campaigner--doubled he ... More >>

Santa Ana's Most Famous Cat Gets A Holiday Tribute

Gretzky​Loretta Sanchez may have won what was her most precious election victory in November, but the divorced Santa Ana congresswoman also suffered a great loss: her dear, 19-year-old feline companion, Gretzky.Gretzky--a fine white-haired cat with bedroom eyes--became famous because Sanchez inclu ... More >>

Van Tran Filed Inaccurate Pre-Election Disclosure Reports

Tran: Oops​In his energetic but losing attempt to unseat Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez, Little Saigon state Assemblyman Van Tran under reported pre-election money pouring into his campaign, according to amended financial disclosure reports filed at the Federal Election Commission (FEC).Size of the ... More >>

Rep. Loretta Sanchez Blasts North Korea and Backs Vietnam Human Rights Sanctions Act

​Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-Garden Grove) has issued a statement condemning North Korea for firing dozens of artillery shells at South Korea's Yeonpyeong Island, killing two South Korean soldiers and wounding 15.The freshly reelected congresswoman, who is the ranking female member on the House Armed ... More >>

Letters From OC Weekly Readers

Letters From OC Weekly Readers

Sunday News Notes: Reg Slams Loretta Sanchez

​Local news highlights include:Register against Loretta Sanchez but drags out marijuana stanceThe editorial staff of the OC Register has declared itself for congressional candidate Van Tran, a Republican; U.S. Senate candidate Carly Fiorina, a Republican; and Whitman, yep, a Republican. "From our ... More >>

Orly Taitz Endorses Van Tran and Sharron Angle, Chills With Eric Cantor and Chris Cox

​If you've been sitting on the sidelines of this year's election campaigns, waiting for advice from someone you know and trust so as to figure out who to vote for... you're going to be kept waiting. In other news, though, Orly Taitz, the Laguna Niguel dentist and lawyer whose big hobby is suing Ba ... More >>

Sunday News Notes

​News highlights include:Meg Whitman's cash is buying her second placeCathleen Decker of the LA Times reports that new polling shows Jerry Brown gaining a "slight edge" over Meg Whitman and that Barbara Boxer has "opened a wider margin over GOP nominee Carly Fiorina in the race for U.S. Senate. ... More >>

Van Tran Goes Positive . . . Almost

Christopher VictorioAssemblyman Van Tran​For those of you wondering if Van Tran's campaign would be based solely on negative attacks featuring Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez as a Democratic bimbo/whore, the answer came today in mail boxes.Tran, the Little Saigon state assemblyman who face term limi ... More >>

Loretta Sanchez and Hugh Hefner--Together, At Last. Again.

​U.S. News and World Report (they still exist) reported yesterday on a manufactured controversy by the Republican Party against their eternal llorona, Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez. Seems Playboy founder and publisher Hugh Hefner tweeted earlier this week that he was having lunch with Loretta at t ... More >>

Has Loretta Sanchez Created a "Big Bugaboo" in Vietnam?

Protected worker?​A highly successful American businessman who lives in Hanoi says that Orange County Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez and Iowa Senator Tom Harkin have "overblown" the need for worker rights in Communist-run Vietnam, according to a July 13 Voice of American (VOA) article."From my ... More >>

Sunday News Notes

​Sunday highlights from the local media include:NEW MOONINGThe annual mooning of Amtrak train passengers happened yesterday in Laguna Hills and the OC Register was there to take pictures and video of the "nearly 100" participants. For the front page of the local section story, the Reg published a ... More >>

Does Loretta Sanchez Have "Retaliatory Hands"?

Doesn't fear a tan​Poor Tan Nguyen. The only folks who pay attention to his perennial congressional campaigns are apparently in the local U.S. Attorney's office. Worse, nowadays Nguyen is proving better at collecting criminal charges than votes.According to Martin Wisckol at the OC Regis ... More >>

Did Van Tran Steal California Conservative Group's Endorsement?

(photo by Christopher Victorio)Newcomer Pham (right) came within one vote of blocking Tran's (left) CRA endorsement​Inside a packed Costa Mesa hotel ballroom yesterday, Orange County's most enthusiastic conservative political activists met to hear candidate speeches and issue endorsements while pa ... More >>

Tan Nguyen's Latino Voter Suppression Case Inching To Trial

Nguyen to Latinos: Voting can be "dangerous"​In 2006, then five-term Orange County Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez faced yet another pathetic Republican challenger, Tan Nguyen, a candidate who equated plastering his campaign placards on every stick, fence and pole in the district with some sort of v ... More >>

Loretta Sanchez Slams White House & Secret Service

Loretta gives her two cents​"I don't think visiting the White House ought be like shopping in a big box retail [store] on the day after Thanksgiving," said Orange County Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez during today's hearing involving U.S. Secret Service boss Mark Sullivan, who admitted that th ... More >>

One Single Wish at DREAM Team Graduation

Photo by Christopher VictorioMarch of the graduates.UPDATED WITH LINK TO SLIDESHOW...Last night's bittersweet mock graduation ceremony for students caught in the horrible, perpetual limbo of being educated, bright and ready to work, but denied the chance to because of their illegal immigration statu ... More >>

OC Toilet-to-Tap Plan Wins Funding in Omnibus Package

Included in the land- and water-conserving Omnibus Public Land Management Act signed into law today by President Obama is a bill providing $6 million in federal funding to help finance future phases of the Orange County Groundwater Replenishment Project--a.k.a. the "toilet to tap plan." The pr ... More >>

[Moxley Confidential] OC Media Asked to Ignore Still-Emerging Dirt on Mike Carona's PSR Mess

Goofy: Why Are the Feds Giving Disneyland Special Anti-Terrorism Protection?

KNBC's Chuck Henry recently scooped everyone with this: Oddly, the only two commercial properties in the U.S. that have gained federal no-fly-zone status after 9/11 are Disneyland in Anaheim and Disneyworld in Orlando. The play parks won the favor just days after President George W. Bush invaded Ira ... More >>

Where's Loretta?

Rebecca Schoenkopf reporting from . . . ORANGE, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 441--The beer is Heineken, the food Mexican, the lights fluorescent. A couple hundred people, very happy--and sitting. Sitting. And we're young. And so, thinking Loretta Sanchez's invite-only party ... More >>

Diary of a Mad County

Oct. 18 - Oct. 24

The New Bob Dornan

Tan Nguyen channels the spirit of OC's favorite congressman

Attention, Defenders of Tan Nguyen

Many of you, including KFI-AM 640's garrulous JohnKen and idiot John Ziegler (we'll never forgive Ziegler for his unceremonious swipe at us Coast to Coast listeneners) keep insisting Tan "Hate The Republicans, Love their Candidacy" Nguyen had a legitimate reason to send out his infamous letter to La ... More >>

Pussies Galore!

What local candidates dont want voters to know

Diary of a Mad County

Diary of a Mad County

Mammaganza!

Everyones a racist! Oh, yes, you are!

Bush League

Reg conveniently forgets it once supported ballot recounts

Orange Crushed

Guilty Pleasures

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Letters

Guerrilla in the Midst

The man behind the human-rights rhetoric

Letters

White Trash Disco

Bob Dornan's shameful final hours

The Loser Wins

How Bob Dornan turned political defeat into a financial windfall for his family

Bowling for Dullards

Scowling, butt-grinding guy is on the loose

Homosexual Hit Man

Bob does a Dornan on OCN

Poof!

Jerque Du Soleil

Bob Dornan's Circus Comes to SoCal and Leaves Once More Without Making Its Case

The Mexican No-Show Show

Bob Dornan, the Times and an 18-Vote 'Scandal'